Not so much lines but I think Lister suffocating(?) and smearing his face against the glass in Waiting for God has been mentioned as something CC used to do in rehearsals that they wrote into an episode. Cat juggling and roller skating was Rob & Doug taking some of Danny’s stage skills and incorporating them into the show.

>Does anyone really buy the idea that Rimmer has a fascination with old cars? Considering his character it meant to be into really boring and dull stuff like telegraph poles and Hammond organ music etc

Would you say horse drawn wagons are an exciting interest? Rimmer is from the future innit.

I would say horse drawn wagons are, but some would say steam trains are, and I’d imagine Rimmer having more interest in those than cars.

Especially given the fact he goes on a holiday in the diesel desk (why does Red Dwarf have diesel decks when it runs on scooping up whatever in space and using that to fuel the ship) I’d accept him having an interest in engines, and if the car stuff was focused on the engines I’d buy it. But it seems to be about more than that and have never really sat right with me. It’s clearly done because Chris likes cars, so they give that trait to Rimmer too.

I’d say it’s prudent to have more than one fuel source when you’re in an environment like space. If they have an issue or need to shut down the hydrogen fed engines they’ll have electric and diesel, it’s also more stable if you’re storing large amounts of it.

As for the topic, the morale meeting is famously a jab at Chris isn’t it? It’s the sort of thing that pissed him off enough that he left.

I agree that vintage cars do seem a little bit too ‘cool’ for Rimmer. They might not exactly be all the rage, but there’s a certain old fashioned style to them – I think of John Steed and even Bond. Steam trains are too romantic, but diesel and electric trains have an unfashionable nerdiness that would suit Rimmer’s character more.

As for the topic, the morale meeting is famously a jab at Chris isn’t it?

Is it really? I’d never heard that one. That makes me look at that scene very differently.

I know he said he’d grown tired of that stuff around Series VI (it’s where I heard him say the ‘professionalism’ line was derived from something he had said off-camera to the other actors) but if the morale meeting was a similar dig then I can understand him being pissed off enough to leave.

“In spirit, I’ll be down there with you. In actuality, I’ll be reading a car mag.”

I remember, when BtE aired, so many people complaining that Rimmer is clearly just being Chris there and how distracting it is and how Rimmer has _never_ mentioned old cars before and how obviously this is such a big problem the average viewer would call Dave to complain.

Weren’t Rimmer’s more exaggerated “sad” interests only introduced in series IV?

Funny how I tend to think of IV a lot when thinking of classic Rimmer moments.

The first thing I thought about when I read this thread was the story from, I think the Companion?, when Craig complained to Rob and Doug about Lister being slobby – while eating a sausage dipped in ketchup he’d squirted onto the table or whatever it was. That really stuck with me.

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